PUBLIC HEARINGS

Notice of Public Hearing

The public is invited by the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) to comment on the following draft transportation programming documents:

1) Draft 2009 Transportation Improvement Program (TIP): This is the region’s transportation programming document that contains surface transportation projects including public mass transit, highway, local road, bicycle and pedestrian projects proposed for funding based on anticipated available federal, state and local funding over the next four years that will receive federal funds or are subject to a federally required action or are regionally significant. The TIP must be financially constrained by year, and must be updated at least every four years. The Draft 2009TIP was developed to be consistent with MTC’s Transportation 2030 Plan for the San Francisco Bay Area, the 25-year spending plan for transportation projects in the nine-county San Francisco Bay Area.

2) Draft Air Quality Conformity Analysis for the Draft 2009 TIP: MTC is also conducting a new air quality conformity analysis for the Draft 2009TIP. Since the 2009 TIP does not include any new regionally significant projects beyond those currently included in the Transportation 2030 Plan, and these projects have been modeled in the appropriate horizon year using the latest planning assumptions, MTC will rely on the previous regional emissions analysis to make a conformity finding on the 2009 TIP.

Copies of the Draft 2009TIP, which includes the financial constraint analysis and the Draft Air Quality Conformity Analysis, are available for public review at the MTC-ABAG Library, and at major public libraries in each of the nine Bay Area counties. They are posted on the MTC Web site at www.mtc.ca.gov/funding/tip/.

A public hearing to receive public testimony on these documents is scheduled during MTC’s Programming and Allocations Committee. The hearing is set for:

Wednesday, April 9, 2008
10:00 a.m. (or immediately following MTC’s Administration Committee meeting, whichever occurs later)
Joseph P. Bort MetroCenter Auditorium
101 Eighth Street
Oakland
(across from the Lake Merritt BART Station)

Written comments may be submitted to MTC’s Public Information Office at 101 Eighth St., Oakland, CA 94607 or faxed to MTC at 510-817-5848 or sent via e-mail to info@mtc.ca.gov. Written comments must be received at MTC no later than 5 p.m. on Thursday, May 1, 2008. For more information, call MTC’s Public Information Office at 510-817-5757. This notice also serves to satisfy the public involvement requirements of the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) annual Program of Projects.

At its May 14, 2008 regularly scheduled meeting, MTC’s Programming and Allocations Committee will consider public comments received by the end of the comment period. MTC is scheduled to approve the air quality conformity analysis and the 2009TIP on May 28, 2008, during its regularly scheduled Commission meeting.